Word: boots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anger and self-righteous vituperation was big (6 ft. 3 in.) Yale-trained Estes Kefauver of Chattanooga, a hard-working Congressman with a prolabor, New Dealish record. "Red Pet Coon." Able, 44-year-old Estes Kefauver jumped into the senatorial primary fight last winter when Mister Crump gave the boot to servile Senator Tom Stewart and hand-picked John Mitchell, a hill-country judge, as his candidate (TIME, Dec. 22). Stewart decided to run anyway. Few politicians gave Kefauver much of a chance in a three-cornered race...
...resignation of Czechoslovakia's ailing, good-willed President Eduard Benes (TIME, June 14). While the headlines shouted the news, the Czech Communist central committee met in Prague and shuffled its front men. Into Benes' job went brash, Moscow-trained Klement Gottwald. For Gottwald it was a boot upstairs. As Premier, he had wielded real power, but the presidency was largely a figurehead's job. Zapotocky moved into the premiership...
Meanwhile further cuts in the Imperial Household budget seemed likely, and Premier Hitoshi Ashida put the boot to some of Hirohito's old-guard retainers, who still wore striped pants and cutaways, still called the Emperor O-kami (Honorable God). Imperial Grand Steward Yoshitami Matsudaira, a palace henchman for 37 years, resigned and "moved across the moat...
...German and Japanese occupations have differed in many ways-most notably, in Japan there was no quarrelsome quadripartite situation to deal with, and MacArthur had the field to himself-but in both cases the U.S. learned early that no boot-on-the-neck type of peace would work. Germany could have become a nation of peasants (as she would have under the Morgenthau plan), but her industry was necessary to the rest of Europe. Japanese industry is needed, first & foremost, to keep Japan alive, for on her meager acres she could not possibly feed herself even if everyone worked...
...baseball season, a giant of a man (6 ft. 4½ in.) limped out to pitch for the Philadelphia A's. On his left leg Leland Victor Brissie, 23, wore two socks and a plastic shin guard. He was not only a rookie but a southpaw to boot, and Plate-Umpire Cal Hubbard got set for a flurry of wild pitching. But the rookie's "live" fast ball cut the plate and his curve snapped over for strikes. Red Sox sluggers got only two hits in five innings...